Format:
X, 274 S.
ISBN:
0820326534
,
0820328421
,
9780820326535
,
9780820328423
Series Statement:
Studies in the legal history of the south
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (S. 253 - 266) and index
,
Realizing popular sovereignty : partisan sentiment and constitutional constraint in Jacksonian jurisprudence -- Imposing self-rule : professionalism, commerce, social order, and the sources of Taney court jurisprudence -- Evidence of law : popular sovereignty and judicial authority in Swift v. Tyson -- Moderating Taney : concurrent sovereignty and answering the slavery question, 1842-1852 -- The limits of judicial partisanship : corporate law and the emergence of southern factionalism -- The sources of southern factionalism : corporations, free blacks, and imperatives of federal citizenship -- The failure of evasion : Dred Scott v. Emerson, Strader v. Graham, Swift v. Tyson, and Dred Scott v. Sandford -- The political economy of blackness : citizenship, corporations, and the judicial uses of racism in Dred Scott -- Looking westward : concurrent sovereignty and the answer to the territorial question
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
Keywords:
Scott, Dred 1809-1858
;
Sklaverei
;
Bürgerrecht
;
Prozess
